Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [adv] [art] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's nothing more satisfying than dressing up a table to suit the occasion . |
| 2 | Young Stuart Duncan is back in action after his career was put on hold following a serious knee injury last Christmas and Malone are still hoping that former Irish Schools ' star Scott Kirkpatrick remains at home rather than taking up an option to return to the States . |
| 3 | What we 're actually doing is checking the firing pin is n't broken and looking down the barrel to make sure it 's not blocked and is properly oiled . |
| 4 | Some passers-by did not wait that long , leaping off buses and scrambling down the embankment to drag the injured out . |
| 5 | ‘ I remember a number that I think might interest you , ’ he said encouragingly , starting at the beginning of the book and going down the columns to look for it . |
| 6 | Outside Sigarup and Kalchu started to unpack the lukals , slitting open the stitching at the top with a knife and tipping out the maize to dry in the sun before they stored it away in wooden chests and cylindrical clay grain vats . |
| 7 | It adopted resolutions supporting the UN efforts and setting up a mission to monitor human rights in Yugoslavia . |
| 8 | In February 1986 , he wrote an article in The Guardian attacking the Kilmuir rules as ‘ much too wide ’ and setting out the attempts to silence him , quoting letters from the Lord Chancellor ( Hailsham ) . |
| 9 | To the masses which the French Revolution had made politically aware and on which the Industrial Revolution was imposing new and appalling burdens while increasing exponentially the capacity to create wealth , Owen 's new view was of a society which had realised their aspirations . |
| 10 | The strategy proposes removing constraints on EC biotechnology industry , whilst setting up a committee to deal with the moral and ethical issues raised by genetic , environmental and human embryo research . |
| 11 | Advanced manufacturing technology is widely put forward as holding out the opportunity to change the competitiveness of businesses . |
| 12 | It is usual when taking out a mortgage to arrange adequate insurance cover in the event of death . |
| 13 | This chapter develops and defends the conception of the nature of practical authority outlined in the previous chapter , i.e. authority as involving essentially THE power to require action . |